Type-tie



J. MULLER.

TYPE TIE.

APPLIQATION FILED DEC. 28, 1918.

Patented May 25, 1920.

UlTED NT orrice.

TYPE-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application filed December 28, 1918. Serial No. 268,695.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnr MiiLLER, a cit-izen of the Swiss Confederation, and residing at Frauenfeld, Switzerland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to certain new and useful improvements in type ties, and relates more particularly to a device for quickly and reliably tying together set up type, especially composed advertising matter to form a selfcontained packet, so that standing or reset matter can readily be arranged and assembled to make up a page, and the invention essentially consists of a band with terminal locking members and of a lock plate with which the band terminals cooperate, which band is designed to encircle the composed matter and hold it securely together as in a packet.

In order to make my invention more readily understood, I will now describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of a two-part lock plate for line spacing of advertisement packets; Fig. 2 shows an edge view thereof; Fig. 3 represents a perspective View of the band with its terminal lock members; Fig. at is a vertical section through a lock member, and Fig. 5 a horizontal section through the two lock members of Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a lock plate adapted for block or fancy rule spacing of a packet; Fig. 7 is an edge view thereof, and Figs. 8 and 9 respectively represent front and side views of a column space rule, adapted to be used in connection with the binding device. Fig. 10 is a perspective view showing the invention applied to a packet type.

According to this invention the tie essentially comprises a band 1 of flexible material intended to be placed around a type packet. To the extremities of this band are respectively secured lock members 2, 2, preferably of metal, whose upper and lower edges are provided with a series of teeth 3. A look plate t, (Figs. 1 and 2), which is to be placed alongside the head or foot of the set matter, is provided with a cut-out 5,

whose upper and lower edges are provided with a line of teeth 5 in the form of racks, of such conformation that they will readily receive the lock members 2, 2 of the band. The short sides of the lock plate are provided with recesses 6, and the lock members 2, 2 are provided with similar recesses 3', into which the band is placed, so that neither the members 2, 2 nor the band, when in cooperative engagement with the lock plate, will protrude beyond the face of the latter.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the plate 4: may be constructed of two parts 4 and 8, the tooth-like extensions 8 of the plate part 8 coacting with corresponding recesses 7 in the plate part a, to secure the two parts together. For better handling the toothed members 2, 2 they are each provided with a finger-tip notch 9 (Figs. 3 and 5). A relative thin lock plate, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, may serve at the same time as line spacer, and a wider plate (Figs. 6 and 7) can be used for block or ornamental spacing.

In Figs. 8 and 9 is illustrated a space rule 11, for marking the division of columns or matter units, which is advantageously employed in connection with the tying device, and this rule is longitudinally recessed on both sides, as at 12, for receiving the tie band.

The manner of using the described device is as follows: The lock plate a is placed against the head or the foot of the set up matter to be ti.ed,the band is tightly drawn around the matter, and the terminal members 2, 2 are hooked into the respective teeth 5 of the plate, the parts then forming a securely bound packet which can safely be handled in assembling a page or which may be shelved for future use.

Obviously, the lock plate, which conveniently may take the place of a space rule, can also be made in a single piece, like the heavy block rule shown in Figs. 6 and T, and it may also be formed and used inde pendently of the space rule.

The device has the practical advantage that with it advertisement and other set matter can be easily and quickly tied or packeted and then assembled to form a page, and that tied and untied matter can readily be arranged to make up a page.

\Vhat I claim is 1. In a printers device of the character described, in combination, a lock plate adapted to serve also as line spacer and in-- tended to be placed alongside of the set-up matter, a flexible member adapted to "be flexed about the set-up matter, and means for operatively connecting the two extremities of said flexible member to said lock plate said means consisting of a cut out v portion in the lock plate formed With teeth a and a member at each end of said flexible member adapted to fit the cut out portion of the lock member and engage with the teeth of said lock member.

2. In a printers device of the character described, in combination, a lock plate hav= mg a central cut-out portion and recesses in its short sides in alinernent withsaid cut-out, teeth forming the longitudinal edges of said cut-out, a flexible member, lock mem bers secured to the extremities of said flex-- ible member, teeth on the longitudinal edges of said lock members adapted to cooperate With the teeth of said lock plate cut-out, said lock members having fingertip notches and recesses in which latter the band ends are secured flush with the surface of said lock members.

J OSEF MULLER. 

